[Mageia-discuss] commercial support

[Marc Paré]

Le 2010-09-24 02:54, herman a écrit :
> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 23:45 -0700, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
>
>> Instead of commercialising Mageia, i would propose that a page be provided by
>> people who are willing to provide support on Mageia to companies. (more or
>> less like debian)
>>
>> I am not saying a separately branded enterprise version is off the table, i'm
>> merely stating that at the start of this project, it may instill some
>> confidence in our project if companies could see that some kind of support will
>> be available.
> Yes, I would also prefer this model.  There is a legal issue with it
> though.  In order for a consultant to provide support to a third party,
> the distribution artwork and other utilities must be free for use and
> distribution to third parties.  So the use of the GPL3 is not allowed
> and trademarked artwork must be explicitly given away.
>
> In short, Mageia would need a license similar to the Scientific Linux
> distribution: https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/legal

I am not too sure what problems GPL3 bring to the artwork. Would the 
artwork license of GPL3 make it viral to other softs on the installed 
machines?

Marc